Jerome Thor

Jerome Thor was an American stage and screen actor whose early reputation rested on Broadway. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he began in the theater, and his Broadway debut came in 1934 in Emmet Lavery's The First Legion. He appeared in many Broadway plays through 1946, among them Clifford Odets's Golden Boy and My Sister Eileen. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he turned to television, taking guest roles on anthology shows such as Suspense and Studio One. His breakthrough was as Robert Cannon in Foreign Intrigue, a syndicated mystery series that ran from 1951 through 1955 and made the trench coat-wearing detective a familiar figure; the coat he wore later joined the Smithsonian Institution's permanent collection. His films included 55 Days at Peking (1963), House of the Black Death (1971), St. Ives (1976) and Love and Bullets (1979). In the early 1980s he played the recurring role of Art Delgado on Hill Street Blues.